§ SIR JOHN SWINBURNE (Staffordshire, Lichfield)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, considering the great importance of the Zambesi River as a means of opening out the trade in the eastern portion of South Africa, he will take immediate steps to have all the mouths of that river thoroughly surveyed by one of Her Majesty's ships?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingOne of Her Majesty's surveying ships is now on her way to the Zambesi, with orders to survey the mouths of the river.